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Unexplained mortality during the US COVID-19 pandemic: retrospective analysis of death certificate data and critical assessment of excess death calculations

OBJECTIVES: Cause-of-death discrepancies are common in respiratory illness-related mortality. A standard epidemiological metric, excess all-cause death, is unaffected by these discrepancies but provides no actionable policy information when increased all-cause mortality is unexplained by reported sp...

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Autores principales: Fairman, Kathleen A, Goodlet, Kellie J, Rucker, James D, Zawadzki, Roy S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8595295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34785551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050361